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Another internationally visible controversy surrounded the second sodomy trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

A key question is whether there will be more spectacles like last weekend's "show trial" of opposition leaders "confessing" to their misdeeds.

The democratic backsliding that has occurred under Yanukovich, recently epitomized by the trial of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, threatens Ukraine's links with the West.

See articleA court in Iran held a fourth televised trial of opposition activists in the wake of the disputed June 12th presidential election.

They were arrested last summer in the wake of the post-election protests and convicted in a mass trial of opposition supporters on charges of conspiracy and propaganda against the Iranian government.

He also cast doubts about the evidence used in the trial of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.

The first trials of opposition political activists and protesters arrested after June's disputed Iranian presidential election began today.

Mr. Sikorski and Mr. Westerwelle called unacceptable the recent crackdown and trials of opposition leaders in Belarus who held peaceful protests in December against the fraudulent presidential elections.

It is also a sign that the numerous arrests and rushed trials of opposition figures in military courts could be running their course.

Iran's authorities are rushing through trials of opposition backers seemingly as a warning to dissidents not to stage protests on 11 February, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

As a result, much like the recent mass trials of opposition leaders, journalists and protesters, any nuclear weapons that Iran might have are purely for show.